St Andrews Church Newspapers 1948

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Newspaper Articles for St Andrews Church 1948

FELLOWSHIP BIRTHDAY AT MOULSECOMBE

Scouts and Guides formed a guard of honour for the Bishop of Chichester (Dr. G. K. A. Bell) when he arrived at St. Andrew’s Church, Moulsecombe, last night (Friday) to preach at the rededication service held on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Moulsecombe Youth Fellowship.
The service, which was conducted by the vicar (the Rev. Bransby A. H. Jones), was attended by members of the fellowship and representatives of other local organisations and fellowships. Later, a “programme of reminiscences” was held in the church hall, where members spoke for five minutes each on past events in the fellowship’s history, and letters were read from members overseas.
The anniversary celebrations will continue until June 4.
Brighton & Hove Herald – 15 May 1948

SWISS COMING TO BRIGHTON

Twenty - three Swiss Christian Catholics, who acted as hosts to a party of the Moulsecombe Youth Fellowship which visited their country last summer, reverse their role and come to Brighton tomorrow (Sunday) as guests of the fellowship.
Their ten-day stay will include a trip around Brighton and visits to Glyndebourne, London, Chichester, Bognor, Eastbourne, and Worthing. The Mayor of Brighton (Councillor P. F. Friend-James, O.B.E.) will officially welcome the visitors on Tuesday at the Royal Pavilion.
The fellowship organiser, Mr C. J. Witten, has arranged a full programme, which includes social events and entertainment as well as the tours.
Brighton & Hove Herald – 7 August 1948

BRIGHTON'S SWISS VISITORS
Folk Songs at Regency Exhibition

The Swiss visitors photographed with the Mayor during their tour
of the Royal Pavilion and its grounds.

Visitors to the Regency Exhibition in the Royal Pavilion on Tuesday morning were entertained by some choral-singing that is not listed among the normal attractions.
A party of 23 Swiss Christian Catholics, who are on holiday in Brighton until Thursday next as guests of the Moulsecombe Youth Fellowship, were thanking the Mayor of Brighton (Councillor P. F. Friend-James, O.B.E.) for his official welcome by singing “Es Buurcbuebli ma-n-i-nit,” an old Swiss folk song!
“It is a good thing for international relations that there should be an interchange of visits by the young people of the world,” said the Mayor, and in reply. Professor L. Affolter the leader of the party, said how happy they were to be in Brighton.
The visitors admitted freely to a Herald reporter, however, that they were not happy on Sunday. They crossed the Channel from Dieppe to Newhaven during the gale, and many of them had never even seen the sea before.
Using St. Andrew's Church hall as their headquarters, the Swiss visitors have this week been taken by the fellowship on several interesting trips, in addition to their tour of the Regency Exhibition. They have been to Glyndebourne, London, Chichester, where they met the Bishop (Dr. G. K. A. Bell), and Eastbourne.
Acting this week as hosts to the Swiss, members of the fellowship, led by Mr C. J. Witten, become the guests on Monday next of members of a fellow organisation in Holland, where they will stay until August 28.
Brighton & Hove Herald – 14 August 1948

MOULSECOMBE'S VICAR
Appointment to Bosham

The appointment of the Rev. Bransby A. H. Jones to be vicar of Bosham, in succession to the Rev. A. L. Chatfield, will deprive Moulsecombe of the services of a very popular and able incumbent. During his 13 years' ministry there he has done invaluable work in building up the church life of this outpost of Brighton and has succeeded in doing much to stimulate the community spirit among his parishioners of all classes and creeds.
He has been a well-known and much-liked personality in local church life since he came to Brighton in 1928 as assistant priest at the Parish Church under the present Bishop of Dover (then Canon A. C. W. Rose), with parochial experience gained in similar posts at Mold and Gresford. In 1931 he was appointed vicar of St. Andrew's, Portslade, where he remained until asked by the Bishop to undertake the spiritual charge of the great housing estate parish which had sprung up at Moulsecombe since the First World War.
Brighton & Hove Herald – 25 September 1948

CHURCH'S GREAT FINANCIAL LOSS
Effect of Government Legislation

Attention to the fact that during the last two years, through Government legislation, the Church of England has lost an income of £131,000 and that it does not receive one penny in State aid, was drawn by Canon J. M. Swift when he presided at the opening on Wednesday of the bazaar in aid of St Andrew's Church, Moulsecombe, one of the concluding events of “Church Efforts, 1948.”
Canon Swift, who was paying his first visit to Moulsecombe, said that in a perfect world it would not be necessary to have efforts such as these because people would know what they owe the Church. Referring to the “alleged wealth” of the. Church Commissioners, Canon Swift said they only hold money in trust and have no “spare cash.”
“Since 1936 the Church of England has lost income of £806,500 because of the Tithe Act, the Mining Royalties Act, and the Transport Act,” he said. “Every parish suffers in greater or lesser degree because of this and the loss has got to be made good.”
“If all the people who use the Church at one time or another made a contribution, the Church would have an enormously large income. But many use the Church just when they wish to for what they can get out of it, and the Church does not receive what it should.”
Canon Swift was introduced by the Vicar (the Rev. Bransby A. H. Jones), and the bazaar was declared open by Mrs Allen West, who congratulated the members of St. Andrew's on their enthusiasm. The sum of £235 was raised by the bazaar.
“Church Efforts, 1948,” which closed yesterday (Friday) with a Youth Fellowship “get together,” was organised by a large committee under the leadership of Mr C. J. Witten.
Brighton & Hove Herald – 4 December 1948

MOULSECOMBE'S NEW VICAR

The Rev. Edward Leigh Phillips has been appointed to succeed the Rev. Bransby A. H. Jones as Vicar of Moulsecombe. In 1939 Mr Phillips became curate-in-charge of the conventional district of South Patcham, where he did excellent pioneer work in building up the church life of that recently developed part of Greater Brighton.
A graduate of St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, Mr Phillips was ordained by the then Bishop of Gloucester in 1935. After serving for two years as assistant chaplain at the Dean Close School, Cheltenham, he was assistant curate of Highfield, near Oxford, for a few months. In 1941 he volunteered his services as a Chaplain to the Forces and was not demobilised until 1946, when he became Vicar of Ide Hill, near Sevenoaks.
Brighton & Hove Herald – 18 December 1948